Combined trap-door abutment and locking member.



PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

H. PEARSON. I COMBINED TRAP DOOR ABUTMENT AND LOCKING MEMBER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1.907.

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HENRY PEARSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE A. DENHAM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED TRAP-DOOR ABUTMENT AND LOCKING MEMBER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed May 8, 1907. Serial No. 372,531.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY PEARSON, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Trap-Door Abutment and Locking Member, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to a device for use in structures, such as sleeping cars and ships, wherein adjacent trap doors of adjacent berth-receiving pockets are raised from horizontal to vertical position and then arrested and locked in that position.

The objects of my invention are to prevent a trap-door from being carried past its proper upright position and so straining it on or from the hinges which connect it with the floor portion of the structure; to make the abutment serve as one member of a lock whereby the trap-door is locked in vertical position; to make one abutment serve for arresting the upward movement of two adjacent trapdoors so that the latter, when in vertical position, shall have a partition-receiving space between them; and to provide the abutment with a garment-hook or the like, if such is desired.

' Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows my new device in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device detached, a part being broken away to show the interior boltreceiving recess; and Fig. 3 is an under plan view of the device.

In the drawings, A is the base and H an upwardly-extending, integral garment-hook. Base A has the opposite walls 1, 2, which serve as abutments, and a laterally-extending flange 3 provided with screw-holes, whereby the device may be attached to the side wall of the structure. .This flange is towards the rear side of base A, so that the abutment-forming shoulder 2 extends forwardly of the flange when the device is in position of use. Hook H is preferably formed with a lower integral and forwardlyprojecting hook 4, the hook H also being on the front side of base A, which is formed with a horizontal wall 5 preferably provided with screwholes, as shown, for additional attachment of the device to the structure on which it is to be mounted. The underside of base A is cut out to form a bolt-receiving chamber G, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. The inner sides 6, 6, of the abutment-forming walls 1, 2, form bearings for bolts of a locking device that is complementary to the device illustrated.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a combined abutment and locking member comprising a base portion having oppositelydisposed, abutment-forming side walls; and a bolt-receiving chamber or space thereinbetween.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a combined abutment and locking member comprising a base portion having oppositelydisposed, abutment-forming side walls; and a bolt-receiving chamber or space thereinbetween; said abutment having-an integral garment-support on its front side.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of tWO witnesses.

HENRY PEARSON.

Witnesses:

G. R. DRISCOLL, WM. S. BELLO 

